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Yea, the old system was more 1 Bot Brain per champion design, which is why quirks in basic functions could occur in one bot. (It also caused a lot of pain for developers as if they found 1 bug in 1 bot.... They would need to fix it across each bot individually.)

With our current system, a lot of our goals are centered around the ability to quickly iterate out bugs/quirks at scale.

That being said, there is a likelihood you will see these behaviors and many more when we go to PBE over the next month or so. So please do let us know if you see these issues so we can fix them prior to a full launch! (And to also test our new fancy iteration tooling :) )

The people who work on midscopes are (mainly) the same team that work on preseason, so right now that's where their focus is going. Once preseason work's out of the way we'll take a look at things and see whether to put midscopes, other work or a mixture of the two on the docket.

Hoping so, would love to have a case for it being a more frequent mode. This version's very similar overall to its past run, we'd definitely be open to gameplay adjustments though in the future if the interest is there

Gotta keep some things a secret ;)

I can't promise anything, but I am building this system for those opportunities in the future.... And I am a big fan of DoomBots of Doom :D

Hey there, I'm sorry about the incorrect information that made it into the patch notes recently. I do my best to make sure everything that goes into the notes is accurate, but i'm only human and sometimes I do make mistakes. When I realize there are issues I try to correct them ASAP, but obviously players that read them immediately on release still see the incorrect information.

I am working to make sure these issues become less and less frequent and eventually disappear altogether though, so I hope you'll continue to read the patch notes.

Not too sure what you mean by quality.
In terms of B&D, we don't solely use it to benchmark success or some champions will probably not exist.
However, for the champions I can speak to, Milio and Naafiri, both have exceeded expectations! Asol was also one of the more popular reworks that we have done to date.

Super amenable to Azir receiving nerfs if he has to. That said, measuring a single region's playoffs is not a very representative sample of champion strength. Before this weekend, Kalista was the #1 presence champion in the LEC post-season. Is Kalista OP?

Azir's work was very successful IMO:

• Pro presence remained at about the same point that it was in 13.1b for multiple months of Summer split
• Solo queue win rate for non-Challenger was significantly closer to 50%
• Champion "depth" (the amount of Azir that Azir players play) is the highest it's been in over two years

Even if he gets like a 1% win rate flat nerf, most of the above still hold true.

Briar is probably the last champion he will own fully for awhile! He is not leaving the gameplay team, but there are other areas that also need his expertise. Other champions around this time are also oversight by August on the design craft. This is just how you grow talent. They go from doing individual contributor work to owning the oversight on projects! That's how people get promoted and be able to have more impact.
There was a period where we were onboarding lots of folks. But now, we actually have a pretty fully stacked team at the moment and can't wait to showcase some of their work.
If you are a fan of August's work, just remember he is just a desk away and does contribute in other ways :)

Hello, Bot PO here (and article writer!) Please do go wild against them and give us any weird bugs you can find and report them to us so we can release a great product for y'all when we launch on live later on!

Seems like a bug

stop don't look

it's forbidden

We routinely look at most systems in League of Legends and evaluate if they are doing the best possible job they could be.

This is really cool! I actually think Celestial Aegis is my favorite in isolation.

Interested in where you think the boundaries for this content are. What would make a rune definitively elevation or not? What underserved need(s) does it fill within the context of supporting or enhancing existing champion kits? How would you define success - if this set of runes popped off and made league way better, how would you know?

that is so cool

Brings me back

We are still planning on doing Kled changes btw, just needed a bit more time.

This was indeed written a week ago. We generally have to lock everything ~1 week in advance in so it can be translated globally

Hmm I wonder if I could ever get a job working in video games…

There's lots of stuff to consider when prioritizing but a simple framework is value vs. cost. How valuable is it to do a thing (there's a lot to unpack there) vs. how expensive is it and what else could we be doing with those people/resources at any time. This was a lower value (not low, value is all relative) lower cost type of change, which often sit under higher value / medium cost types of changes, but then the game gets dusty if we don't make an intentional effort to sweep the floor every once and a while with stuff like this.

For the examples you mentioned, one factor is what people with what specialties are actually available at any given time. On my team (Summoner's Rift Team, we do the balance / preseason changes) we had capacity from a gameplay engineer and a game designer. The game designer is very familiar with the gameplay experience and provided better rules for the surrender system, and the gameplay engineer was able to implement them. That game desi...